{"id":319027,"date":"2025-12-16T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:35:07","slug":"deontay-wilder-accused-of-pulling-out-of-heavyweight-fight-we-had-a-deal-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319027\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder accused of ‘pulling out’ of heavyweight fight: “We had a deal in place”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deontay Wilder<\/a> has been called out for supposedly swerving one of his heavyweight counterparts, before a potential clash with Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> even entered the equation.<\/p>\n

The former WBC world champion was highlighted earlier this month by Usyk, the bona fide heavyweight king, as a possible opponent for his next outing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having vacated his WBO strap, the Ukrainian doubled down on his lack of interest in fighting Fabio Wardley, the newly-crowned world champion, and instead expressed his desire to face Wilder.<\/p>\n

In response, \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019, who has not fought since his seventh-round stoppage victory over Tyrrell Herndon in June, was only too happy to verbally accept Usyk\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n

Should the pair collide in 2026, it would likely be for the WBC, IBF and WBA titles that Usyk unified following his fifth-round finish over Daniel Dubois this past July.<\/p>\n

But still, many remain doubtful over the world-class credentials of Wilder, whose notorious power was nowhere to be seen in recent defeats to Zhilei Zhang<\/a> and Joseph Parker.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but the 40-year-old has been accused of avoiding a fight against Derek Chisora<\/a>, who was angling to stage his 50th professional outing in Manchester this month.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old veteran comes off a trio of points wins over Otto Wallin, Joe Joyce and Gerald Washington, which followed his stoppage defeat to Tyson Fury in 2022.<\/p>\n

As for a potential showdown with Wilder, it seems that Chisora, who was also linked with former foe Dillian Whyte, has not forgotten the events that supposedly led to a collapse of their initial agreement.<\/p>\n

After facing off with the American in a rather playful exchange, Chisora revealed to FightHype<\/a> that they had a deal in place to fight in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeontay\u2019s a b****. I gave him a contract before and he f***ing ducked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was supposed to be fight number 50 in Manchester. We had a deal in place, everything was done, but he pulled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chisora\u2019s next move is currently unknown, having also been linked to a fight with new WBO champion Wardley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder has been called out for supposedly swerving one of his heavyweight counterparts, before a potential clash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-319027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}